Cover and Table of Contents

For my magazine cover and table of contents, I decided I wanted to use different lines and shapes so that it would relate to the 2 page spread and impact spread. I also wanted it to have that architectural feel to it. 

Here are some sketches that I drew up:

I took the designing into illustrator and started playing with it. This is what I came up with for the cover:

Next I played with a very similar idea for the table of contents:

I later decided to play with it even more and change up the background. This is the final product of my table of contents:

2 page spread

Now that I finished the impact spread, I had to come up with an idea for the 2 page spread that had similar elements. After discussing with a few of my peers, I decided that I was going use my image of Trinity Church, and label different architectural elements of it. Here is the layout that I came up with. I put the article about the church to left side of the design.

Impact spread

I started playing with different ideas on photoshop for my impact spread and my 2 page spread and these are a couple of the ideas that I came up with.

This was originally suppose to be my impact spread:

As I played with the design, I tried some other ideas. Here is another design I came up with: (Obviously not the final design)

Here is what I started to come up with for the layout of my 2 page spread:

I found the text for this article on a boston architecture website. Interesting enough, many of the students in my class thought that this would look better as the impact spread rather than the 2 page spread.

I finally decided to change things up a bit and use a layout very similar to this as my impact spread. Here is what I came up with:

Magazine Project

For our most current project in this class. We were to make a two page spread for an architectural magazine, make an impact spread, make a cover, and a table of contents. I decided to use an image from Boston Massachusetts and do my double page spread on the Trinity Church.

This is the image that I chose:

I started doing some sketches of different ideas of the 2 page impact spread and  article spread

In context and Amazon Photo

This is what my book cover would look like in a book store:

This is what my book cover would look like on the Amazon website:

final Book Cover design

This is the final design of the Front, spine, and back cover for the book cover project:

Design on Computer

My Book cover design went though quite a few stages to develop in to its the final product. Here a a few images throughout the developing stage.

This is the archival paper that I crumbled up in order to make the background texture for my book cover:

 
I took a few pictures of my girlfriend Sam holding a locket that  my mom gave me for my book cover:

This is the image of Dostoevsky that I photoshoped into the lock for my book cover:

These are the first few drafts of m y book cover design:

After the critique,  I decided to take the images of the hand holding the locket out and just having the locket laying on the page.

Thia is a snapshot the of the front, spine, and back cover.